There’s a unique kind of pain—quiet, persistent, and deeply personal—that stems not from failure, rejection, or heartbreak, but from the undeniable awareness of our unfulfilled potential.
This keeps me awake at night. Thank you forever for your posts. They (The one on love not waiting, and on building great products and working without gimmicks - authentic giving) are exactly what's been running through my head for the past 2 years. It gets me up in the morning and the last thing I think about before bed.
Thanks Aniket for this post. I had been listening to some podcast about Learned Helplessness this morning which can be a root cause of feeling stuck and numb somewhere. It is imperative to break the feelings down and go deeper. David Goggins is a great example on exposing his vulnerabilities to the public and detailing his break out of the cycle journey. Can say my favorite as of now.
Aniket - This post is sooo deep. This is a powerful and haunting type of pain—and one that often goes unnamed. It’s not dramatic. It doesn’t come with a clear villain or clean narrative arc. It’s subtle, but heavy. This pain is deeply personal only to the one person experiencing it. This is not really shared pain, though most of us can realize that we also have this kind of pain - if that makes sense.
Do you think we need to grieve the loss of who we could have potentially been? The same way we grieve not having the relationship we expected with a partner?
“There’s no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”
This keeps me awake at night. Thank you forever for your posts. They (The one on love not waiting, and on building great products and working without gimmicks - authentic giving) are exactly what's been running through my head for the past 2 years. It gets me up in the morning and the last thing I think about before bed.
Hell is real. But we can crawl out.
God bless you.
Thanks Aniket for this post. I had been listening to some podcast about Learned Helplessness this morning which can be a root cause of feeling stuck and numb somewhere. It is imperative to break the feelings down and go deeper. David Goggins is a great example on exposing his vulnerabilities to the public and detailing his break out of the cycle journey. Can say my favorite as of now.
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Aniket - This post is sooo deep. This is a powerful and haunting type of pain—and one that often goes unnamed. It’s not dramatic. It doesn’t come with a clear villain or clean narrative arc. It’s subtle, but heavy. This pain is deeply personal only to the one person experiencing it. This is not really shared pain, though most of us can realize that we also have this kind of pain - if that makes sense.
Do you think we need to grieve the loss of who we could have potentially been? The same way we grieve not having the relationship we expected with a partner?
“There’s no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”
— Maya Angelou